Re-evaluating Learning Styles: Practical Implications for School Counselors

Recent research has found little evidence to justify the actual effectiveness of learning styles into the classrooms. To improve student academic success, school counselors need to provide evidence-based support. This presentation will consider different factors that impact student success while providing alternative practical skills that can be used to support students’ learning

Responding to the Mental Health crisis in Schools: Implications for Counselor Education Programs

The significant rise in mental health issues among students is alarming and challenges school counselors’ preparation and professional identity. This mental health crisis in schools establishes the need for counselor education programs to revamp curriculum training methods, teaching pedagogy, and dual field experiences for counseling students

Encouragement Is Not Enough: Perceptions and Attitudes towards Corrective Feedback and Their Relationship to Self-Efficacy

This correlational study explored the relationship between feedback and counselor self-efficacy during online counselor education residency. Participants (N=145) were students from eight Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) accredited online counseling programs who completed instruments on perceptions of positive and corrective feedback, attitudes towards corrective feedback, and counselor self-efficacy. Results showed a significant positive correlation between perceptions of corrective feedback and self-efficacy. Two factors related to perceptions of corrective feedback also showed significant correlations with self-efficacy. Implications concerning providing corrective feedback in supervision for counselor in training are discussed

Potential Use of Flaxseed in Egg Production

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Surface Modifications for Greater Cycle Life and Energy Density in Lithium-Ion Batteries

Significant challenges remain before lithium-ion batteries can support the decarbonization of the transportation and power sectors required to avert catastrophic climate change. The energy density of these batteries must be increased, while decreasing the price, and maintaining or increasing their lifespan. To improve the practical energy density of existing materials, more lithium must be extracted from the cathode upon charge. However, this additional lithium extraction requires an increased charging voltage and shortens battery cycling life. Previous theoretical work has predicted that complex oxides such as Li2SrSiO4 have promise as cathode coatings to extend cycle life under high voltage (e.g., 4.5 V versus lithium metal) operation. In this work, a dual sol-gel coating of Li2SrSiO4 and Al2O3 at the optimal thickness on LiCoO2 has been shown to allow for charging to a greater cut-off voltage of 4.5V to access a greater gravimetric capacity of ~185 mAh/g. This greater stability at high cut-off voltages persists through high-rate cycling and maintains a good cycling life. Meanwhile, Li2SrSiO4 on its own failed to allow for stable cycling of LiCoO2 at a higher voltage. The mechanism by which this coating scheme works was probed with several X-ray characterizations including X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and X-ray fluorescence and ptychography imaging to gather insight for work on even more effective ceramic cathode coatings in the future.Key Words: Battery, Cathode, Lithium-ion, Surface Characterization, Electrochemistr

Educational Studies and the Domestication of Utopia

This paper offers a critique of educational real utopias. Real Utopias are experimental forms of thought and practice intended to harness the transgressive force of traditional utopianism while avoiding its associated dangers. The concept has been embraced by the field of educational studies and applied to the study of various educational settings, institutions and processes. This paper does four things. Firstly, it outlines the concept of utopian realism and highlights those aspects that are said to differentiate it from the utopia that supposedly played a role in the human catastrophes of the twentieth century. It then evaluates a selection of educational real utopias to assess whether they can, in fact, be said to have succeeded in the task of harnessing the intellectual force while overcoming the dangers of traditional utopianism. Thirdly, the paper offers a critique of utopian realism, arguing that the concept of utopia has become thoroughly domesticated. Finally, the paper defends the expansive and holistic concept of utopia that utopian realism rejects. The argument here is that only when utopia is understood as a holistic system is it able to produce its most potent pedagogical effects

Neptune to the Common-wealth of England (1652): the republican Britannia and the continuity of interests

In the seventeenth century, John Kerrigan reminds us, “models of empire did not always turn on monarchy”. In this essay, I trace a vision of “Neptune’s empire” shared by royalists and republicans, binding English national interest to British overseas expansion. I take as my text a poem entitled “Neptune to the Common-wealth of England”, prefixed to Marchamont Nedham’s 1652 English translation of Mare Clausum (1635), John Selden’s response to Mare Liberum (1609) by Hugo Grotius. This minor work is read alongside some equally obscure and more familiar texts in order to point up the ways in which it speaks to persistent cultural and political interests. I trace the afterlife of this verse, its critical reception and its unique status as a fragment that exemplifies the crossover between colonial republic and imperial monarchy at a crucial moment in British history, a moment that, with Brexit, remains resonant